Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: to which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men, by John Aubrey, Esq: The Whole Now First Published from the Originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with Biographical and Literary Illustrations ...John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813 |
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... written by AUBREY , it is proper to state , that the object has been to give them verbatim , without correction or addi- tion ; and this must account for many inaccuracies that will be detected , and for many omissions that a 2.
... written by AUBREY , it is proper to state , that the object has been to give them verbatim , without correction or addi- tion ; and this must account for many inaccuracies that will be detected , and for many omissions that a 2.
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... tion for such a volume . And as to the friaries , which were mendicants , and had nothing but their houses of habitation , I did endeavour , when I had the perusal of the Tower records , to find out the times of their foundations , and ...
... tion for such a volume . And as to the friaries , which were mendicants , and had nothing but their houses of habitation , I did endeavour , when I had the perusal of the Tower records , to find out the times of their foundations , and ...
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... tion are preserved among Mr. St. Amand's papers in the Bodleian Library . The following copy of one of these letters will shew the nature of the composition , and the in formation it contains . Erford 19-20 Aug. The Saxon Colonel Hanaw ...
... tion are preserved among Mr. St. Amand's papers in the Bodleian Library . The following copy of one of these letters will shew the nature of the composition , and the in formation it contains . Erford 19-20 Aug. The Saxon Colonel Hanaw ...
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... tion of my grand - father amongst the learned men ; as Daniel Heinsius , Thuanus , Sir H. Sa- ville , and many others . Bishop Montague gives him the title of a Magazine of Learning . I enjoy ( Ges didouros ) indifferent good health ...
... tion of my grand - father amongst the learned men ; as Daniel Heinsius , Thuanus , Sir H. Sa- ville , and many others . Bishop Montague gives him the title of a Magazine of Learning . I enjoy ( Ges didouros ) indifferent good health ...
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... tion of your Athenæ , or any opportunity given you for enlargement therein . Nor is matter in so bulky and dear a volume so likely to arrive at the notice of many as in a book of small bulk and price . I knew very well that glorious ...
... tion of your Athenæ , or any opportunity given you for enlargement therein . Nor is matter in so bulky and dear a volume so likely to arrive at the notice of many as in a book of small bulk and price . I knew very well that glorious ...
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afterwards ancient answer Anthony Wood Antiquities Bishop Bishop of Oxford Bodleian Library Browne Willis Canterbury Catalogue chapel chaplain CHARLETT Coll concerning copy Cotton Library Creech curious Dean DEAR SIR death Demies desire died Duke Earl edition English favour Fellows friend and servant gave Gerard Langbaine give glad Gorlitz Greek hand hath hear Hearne HICKES History honour hope humble servant HUMFREY WANLEY King King's lady Latin learned LETTER lived London Lord Magdalen College Majesty matter morning Narcissus Marsh never obliged occasion Oxford Oxon paper person Peter Pett pleased pray present printed published received REVEREND SIR Saxon sent Servt shew Shottesbrooke Speculum Stultorum Stratton suppose tell thanks things thither thought tion told town trouble University College University of Oxford Vice Chancellor volume WANLEY wherein Wood words write written
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Página 20 - IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous, or remarkable on the defective side.
Página 538 - This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse, about 18; and was an actor at one of the play-houses, and did act exceedingly well (now B.
Página 147 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.
Página 538 - Dreame,'1 he happened to take at Grendon, in Bucks, which is the roade from London to Stratford ; and there was living that constable about 1642, when I first came to Oxon. Mr. Jos. Howe is of that parish, and knew him. Ben Jonson and he did gather humours of men dayly, wherever they came.
Página 382 - He was very communicative, and willing to instruct any that were modest and respectfull to him. And in order to my journey...
Página 554 - Philip, so famous for men at armes, that 'twas then held as great a disgrace for a young gentleman to be seen riding in the street in a coach, as it would now for such a one to be seen in the streetes in a petticoate and wastcoate; so much is the fashion of the times nowe altered.
Página 237 - A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Scholars of Winchester College and all other Devout Christians.
Página 68 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Página 519 - WR to talke of the anagramme of Dog." In his speech on the scaffold, I heard my cosen Whitney say (and I thinke 'tis printed) that he spake not one word of Christ, but of the great and incomprehensible God, with much zeale and adoration, so that he concluded he was an a-christ, not an atheist.
Página 379 - Edge-hill with him ; and during the fight, the Prince and Duke of York were committed to his care. He told me that he withdrew with them under a hedge, and took out of his pocket a book and read ; but he had not read very long before a bullet of a great gun grazed on the ground near him, which made him remove his station.